Re: Re-multiple surgeries, severe adhesions and statue of limitations

From: chiggerkat@futura.net
Wed Jul 9 23:49:49 2003


DEAR BLAIR, SORRY TO HEAR YOU ARE IN SUCH PAIN. WE ALL HERE KNOW HOW YOU FEEL. I'LL KEEP YOU IN MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS SHERRY G -----Original Message----- From: "Blair in Atlanta" <rcgmiami@att.net> To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@dns.obgyn.net> Date: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 8:23 PM Subject: Re-multiple surgeries, severe adhesions and statue of limitations

>July 9, 2003
>
>Hello, all you adhesion sufferers,
>
>My name is Blair in Atlanta. I need anyones help with the following
>information. I have had 10 laparotomy surgeries from 1994 through 1998.
>I kept having re-occurring ovarian cyst and tremendous adhesions
>requiring surgery. My doctors always told me that surgery
>(laparotomies), were my only option to cure my pain and problems. I
>trusted them and submitted myself to these 10 surgeries. I was on this
>endless merry-go-round where I would be in severe pain, go to the
>doctor, have surgery to remove ovarian cyst, endometriosis, and
>especially adhesion. These so called "doctors" had me on a VICOUS CYCLE
>OF HAVING SURGERY EVERY 6 MONTHS. Needless to say each major surgery
>required a few months or longer to recuperate. Just as soon as I would
>begin to heal, I would end up having yet another and another surgery.
>The doctors would always say, wait a few more weeks to heal and you will
>feel better. Before I knew, weeks turned into months, and months turned
>into years!!! The pain always returned in full force and each time the
>doctors would say "I can't help you anymore. You need to learn to live
>with pain, or go to a pain clinic for pain management. I was always on
>the "wait and see mode!!!" I was so caught up in this never ending
>healing process, that I did not have anytime to stop and realized the
>magnatude of any wrong doings by the doctors. How is anyone suppose to
>think clearly about any legal issue when I was forced to concentrate on
>my healing and getting past the surgery. I was constantly, heavy
>medicated on morphine, demorol, lortab, oxycontin, mepergan forte
>before, during and after each surgery.
>
>To this day, 4 more doctors have recommended more surgery or they would
>no longer treat me. So I now refuse and look for another doctor.
>
>In January 2003, my new doctor informed me that the surgeries number 5
>through 10 should have never been performed. He said that he had never
>seen such "poor judgement", by any doctor, in his 49 years of practice.
>He also said that "those doctors should be taken out back and shot for
>what they did to you!!" This was the very 1st time that any doctor (and
>there were hundreds), had spoken up and informed me that what these
>doctor did was extremely wrong!! Most doctor will never say anything
>against other doctors. I guess there is some "doctor code" that
>encourages doctors to always agree with others. He also said they
>should have known not to operate, just by seeing my diagnosis alone.
>
>It has now been 5 years since my last surgery. The mental fog from all
>this torture, has barely lifted. Now I am very angry, I live in
>excrutiating pain on a daily basis that has rendered me totally
>disabled. I take alot of strong pain medications just to get out of
>bed. Some days I am riddled with pain so severe that I am bedridden for
>days at a time. I am under constant care of numerous doctors. I have
>spent numerous nights in the ER, hospitalizations, having all kinds of
>test, blood work, CT scans, MRI'S, treatments, physical therapy, and I
>have seen numerous specialist, too numerous to count. I have also been
>to atleast 6 different pain clinics to no avail. I lost every job I had
>during these surgeries!! My entire life has been turned upside down.
>
>I NOW WANT TO FILE LAW SUITS AGAINST THESE SURGEONS. ALTHOUGH I AM
>GETTING DISCURAGED, BECAUSE MOST ATTORNEYS ARE TELLING ME THAT THE
>STATUE OF LIMITATIONS HAS RUN OUT AND I HAVE NO RECOURSE! UNDER TORT
>LAW, THE STATUE OF LIMITATION CAN BE ARGUED THAT IT BEGINS AT THE POINT
>YOU DISCOVER YOU HAVE A PROBLEM. IT DOESN'T ALWAYS DEPEND ON THE DATE
>OF INCCIDENT OR SURGERY. SO IN MY CASE, JANUARY 2003 WAS THE VERY 1ST
>TIME I WAS INFORMED OF ANY WRONG DOINGS BY A DOCTOR. AND THE 1ST TIME I
>REALIZED THAT MY HEALING PROCESS WAS OVER AND MY PROBLEMS WERE WORSENING
>EACH DAY DUE TO THESE ADHESIONS FROM SURGERIES!!! I KNOW I AM NOT THE
>1ST PERSON TO HAVE THIS SITUATION HAPPEN. IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE
>LIKE ME? ANYONE WITH PAST EXPERIENCE, ANY INFORMATION REGARDING
>ADHESIONS AND EXTENDING THE STATUE OF LIMITATIONS. I NEED ANY LEGAL
>ADVICE ASAP!! The sooner, the better!! Please e-mail me at
>rcgmiami@att.net
>
>Thank you for listening,
>Blair in Atlanta July 9, 2003
>
>--
>Blair in Atlanta
>


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